I don't have a lot of free time, which is fine with me. My house if full of rescue animals, my mom needs a lot of help... I'm busy.
The photographer that I introduced to management seems to think that my time and money are just free for the asking. We had discussed doing a really elaborate set up for the cover of the calendar. I'd make a blinged out fur bikini, get a traditional Russian fur hat and fur trim some boots. We discussed other ideas for the interior shot.
He had a meeting with management yesterday, where he told her that I'd do the fur bikini for the interior shot and that I'd do it in two weeks. WTF!!! No! I didn't agree to that! For a cover shot, sure. But I'm not spending that kind of time and money for a flipped through interior shot with a lot less visibility and therefore less value. And definitely not in two fucking weeks!
As it turns out, he's essentially obligated me to do it. Management now expects it. I can possibly find recycled fur at a thrift store, but the rhinestones and other materials aren't cheap. The ushanka will easily run me $70-100. After all is said and done, I'm looking at $300-400 and several days to get everything done.
And, he's promised that I'll do it on the 14th. The day that I have to take my puppy into the vet so he can be altered on the 15th. We need to do this so I don't have to pay an extra $200 to license him and so he can start going to puppy daycare for socialization and bite inhibition. And so I can have a day where I can just drop him off, get shit done and he can have a blast playing. And so he'll stop trying to hump the cats. And marking all over. It needs to happen.
So... Now I have to come up with tons of money for this fucking shoot, $300 to neuter my dog. Oh, it's tax time too which means that I have a huge bill to pay next month and my customer isn't coming in as often because he has a huge tax liability too.
I don't understand why everybody seems to think that I have unlimited time and money that everybody's entitled to. My mom is bad enough with her emotional vomiting and freaking out over the teeniest things. I get why she's doing it. This fucked... He doesn't listen and apparently doesn't give a fuck.
At this point, there's really not much I can do and not piss off management. I can probably put it off until I have more time and money to deal with it, but I really resent that I'm essentially being forced into this.



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